| Eye in the Sky: Story of the Corona Spy Satellites (Smithsonian History of Aviation & Spaceflight) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Dwayne A. Day, John M. Logsdon, Brian Latell
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 534317
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1560987731
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9781560987734
ASIN: 1560987731
Publication Date: August 31, 1999
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 Presentation of an amazing US intellegence program November 23, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
>This book is less a narrative and more a series of accounts byindividuals throughout the life of the CORONA project. As such, it reads a bit differently from a single-author non-fiction book. However, this form adds detail, personal perspective, and color to the account of the project. I hope that future books can be written using this material and the newly declassified government material to write a full account of the CORONA program and its heirs and its impact to international affairs. END
 A detailed account of early U.S. satellite imaging April 16, 1998
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The genesis of this book was a conference in May 1995 which brought together many of the main players in the CORONA project at the time it was declassified. The book contains chapters by different authors on specific aspects of the project including its historical context, technical development, impact of the resulting intellignce, etc. A short chapter on the corresponding Soviet "Zenit" project is also included. The different chapter authors bring interesting perspectives and specialist knowledge at the expense of some repetition. The photographs are also very nice. This is a more scholarly and comprehensive treatment than the Peebles book on the same subject.
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